Poverty and class, in intersection with race, ethnicity, and sexual and gender identity
Patterns of cumulative victimization and intimate partner violence,especially among adolescents and young adults
The relationshipsbetween victimization andstigma,mental health,school participation, and economic outcomes
Theoretical foundations (life coursetheory, stress process models, cumulative disadvantage, stigma, trust) and innovative methods (life history calendar, multilevel modeling, mixed methods, grounded theory)
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Sexual Assault Survivors’ Experiences Seeking Civil No Contact Orders. Office of Violence Against Women. 2023-2024.
Using the Life History Calendar to Examine Young Transgender Women's Trajectories of Violence, Mental Health, and Protective Processes.The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. 2021-2024.
Debt as a Control Tactic in Abusive Marriages: Its Characteristics, Legal Remedies, and Effects. National Science Foundation. 2019-2024.
Using the Life History Calendar to Assess IPV, Labeling, Stigma, and Mental Health across Relationships among Young Women. MSU School of Social Work. 2017-2021.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Kennedy, A. C., Prock, K. A., Adams, A. E., Littwin, A., Meier, E., Saba, J., & Vollinger, L. (2024). Can this provider be trusted? A review of the role of trustworthiness in the provision of community-based services for intimate partner violence survivors. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 25(2), 982-999.
Kennedy, A. C., Bybee, D., Adams, A. E., Moylan, C. A., & Prock, K. A. (2022). The effects of social location and situational factors on young women’s disclosure of intimate partner violence across relationships. Violence and Victims, 37(1), 44-62.
Kennedy, A. C., Meier, E., & Prock, K. A. (2021). A qualitative study of young women’s abusive first relationships: What factors shape their process of disclosure? Journal of Family Violence, 36(7), 849-864.
Kennedy, A. C., Bybee, D., Moylan, C. A., McCauley, H. L., & Prock, K. A. (2021). Predictors of sexual violence across young women’s relationship histories. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(11-12), NP5944-NP5964.
Kennedy, A. C., & Prock, K. A. (2018). “I still feel like I am not normal”: A review of the role of stigma and stigmatization among female survivors of child sexual abuse, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 19(5), 512-527.
Kennedy, A. C., Bybee, D., McCauley, H. L., & Prock, K. A. (2018). Young women’s intimate partner violence victimization patterns across multiple relationships. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 42(4), 430-444.
